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Monday, 27 September 2010

The yacht on the church - a mea culpa

image courtesy of the Church website

The lovely yawl Latifa is one of William Fife III's finest creations, but she certainly wasn't around in 1929 when the first batch of Islanders were racing. She was launched at Fairlie in 1936 and is still sailing, having been restored some years ago in Italy.

The finial with the fine scale model dates from 1951 and was dedicated to the late Mr Fife.

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This blog was set up to provide an archive of information about the Islanders and the people involved with them and nearly a year on it now contains most of the available material, which I hope is a good historical record. I am now tending to edit existing posts to make them more accurate, rather than writing new ones. I am posting most new material, especially anything that is of interest more generally on www.scottishboating.blogspot.com

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I first sailed on a Scottish Islander in the early 1970s and have owned Stroma since 1976. For some years I have been gathering material for a book, which may eventually materialise, but until that happens this blog is available as a place where history can be recorded and information preserved.

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One sunny day on the loch

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